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by flymasterv 7d ago
I was a summer intern for about 3 months. All I really remember was lunch on the Groof and my first experience with Free Tech Soda. I handled a lot of the i18n on the demo stuff, like the chess game.
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by flymasterv 7d ago
Huh. I somehow missed that 24 years ago. Joel’s right.
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by flymasterv 8d ago
I worked for Ray Ozzie at Groove, and I still mourn what that could have become. It was, in many ways, a modern reimagining of Notes, but that meant it had the same problem: customers and users thought they were using a product, but they ha
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by flymasterv 1mo ago
Boston to Bingham, Maine in about 4 hours. I was in my car and headed home about 10 seconds after totality ended and made it home in 5 hours. Totally worth it.
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by flymasterv 1mo ago
Means the same thing here.
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by flymasterv 1mo ago
React? Lucky. I wrote Closure (with an S) at GOOG in anger 5 years ago, and only stopped because I switched teams.
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by flymasterv 1mo ago
Thank you! Google’s tooling was, hands down, the worst I have ever encountered. I did 10 years at GOOG, 3 at AMZN, 4 in research, and another 5 at companies you have heard of but wouldn’t be impressed by, and every day GOOG infuriated me.
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by flymasterv 1mo ago
Cool project, but my question is: what are those buttons?
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by flymasterv 2mo ago
“Line of work”? I’m fascinated by this. Diner waitress? Cop? Carnie? Cockney bingo caller?
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by flymasterv 3mo ago
On the other hand, while I completely agree about the C codebase, the Javascript is at least comprehensible. I've toyed around with adding a feature or two, and almost got there.
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by flymasterv 3mo ago
The problem here is that limited overs cricket has been modified from regular test cricket in a way that fundamentally alters the strategy and flow of the game to increase the action and decrease how long it takes to play. Because of those
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by flymasterv 3mo ago
If you like Bitsy, check out Playdate’s take on it, Pulp. https://play.date/pulp/
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by flymasterv 4mo ago
Probably the best kart racer ever made.
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by flymasterv 4mo ago
I guess I consider Apple Pay via Wallet, which I use, to be different from Gym Membership via Wallet, which just doesn't seem worth the effort? Maybe I'm unusual.
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by flymasterv 4mo ago
I’ve always felt like Wallet is mostly a solution in search of a problem, but maybe more adoption will help? I don’t really believe that places that require membership cards are going to let users start creating their own, though.
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by flymasterv 5mo ago
I still have my “Get fucked, employee! Love, Jeff” puzzle pieces.
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by flymasterv 5mo ago
We did this on Fire Phone for live sports and audio based X-Ray cast info. It was, like everything about that phone, a really fun tech demo.
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by flymasterv 6mo ago
Awesome. Is there any chance of getting MicroPython or CircuitPython support?
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by flymasterv 6mo ago
Let's leave Bop-It out of this.
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by flymasterv 7mo ago
Their lack of multiple AZ’s isn’t the guy making 30k a year’s problem.
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by flymasterv 7mo ago
Man, don’t be a “hero” trying to restore a lower ping to someone trying to buy a kindle in Jeddah.
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by flymasterv 7mo ago
Technically, this is not a QR code. Under ISO 18004, QR codes must be 1cm x 1cm or larger.
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by flymasterv 9mo ago
Is there a way to use the official Claude web app with GitHub providers other than GitHub? I’ve put a decent amount of effort into moving away from there, I don’t want to go back.
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by flymasterv 9mo ago
I picked up one of the cheap 32x32 Bluetooth displays for a few bucks at a thrift store recently, and have had a lot of fun with it, but the upload speed makes it unsuitable for any frequent updates. Does the WiFi version solve that?
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by flymasterv 10mo ago
GHArchive is updated constantly, but the tables reflect COMPLETED time periods. So there’s no yearly/2025, yet. You have to look at the monthlies. Source: just left GOOG after 5 years on the GitHub tooling team.
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by flymasterv 10mo ago
Because they were handed $2 and have to get the change out of the register.
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by flymasterv 10mo ago
That’s illegal in a lot of places.
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by flymasterv 10mo ago
At GOOG you’re required to, by policy.
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by flymasterv 11mo ago
Language detection (where “language”== one of the 200 languages that are actually used), IS trivial, given a paragraph of text. And the fact is that the author of the web page doesn’t know the language of the content, if there’s anything us
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by flymasterv 11mo ago
It states the cargo culted reasons, but not the actual truth. 1) Pronounciation is either solved by a) automatic language detection, or b) doesn't matter. If I am reading a book, and I see text in a language I recognize, I will pronoun

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